Name: Yap Wei Tyng

ID: 0314058

Module: Assignment Essay

Session: April intake 2013

Topic: In some countries young people have little leisure time and are under a lot of pressure to work hard in their studies. What do you think are the causes and effects of this condition? Plan your response, and then write a cause and effect essay.

Leisure time it the time that most of the young people lack in because of lots of

issue especially in their studies. Young people nowadays are busy in doing

assignments, projects and homework that have been ordered by their teachers and

lecturers. Besides that, there are many news shown in newspaper or television that

report about stress of students in their study due to lots of causes so it shown clearly

that young people nowadays have lots of stress. Leisure time is very important for us

especially young people because we are still amateurs in this social community and

need more experience. There are several causes that cause young people nowadays

lack of leisure time.

Firstly, school has usually been cited as the most well-known cause of stress

among young people. Unquestionably, knowledge is ever increasing and the amount of

knowledge that students are supposed to study at school these days can be worrying.

Lots of the parents are also unable to teach their kids although it just secondary

standard. For example, in 90’s time kindergarten kids just learn ABC when they were 5

years old but in nowadays kids start to learn adjective and verb when they were 5 years

old. Therefore, instead of absorbing knowledge naturally, they are jam-packed with it.

For instance, my six years old sister nowadays hate study and started to avoid from

books because it was too hard and she can’t receive in a short time. They are

overburdened with the workload and hardly have time for recreation and relaxation.

Definitely, nervous tension is unavoidable.

Secondly, non-supportive parents are also cause that adds to the young people’s

stress nowadays. They have such very high expectations of their children that they

sometimes pay no attention to their children’s feelings. For example, they always

require their children to gain brilliant academic records and take little note of how much

suffering their children have to run into. Besides that, the parents with high expectation

will always stare on their children’s homework and force them to study all the time

without providing any rest or entertainment for them. In this way, children are put under

incredible pressure, which can easily lead to some psychological problems, especially

stress.

What are the effects when the young people get stressed? They will start to say

dumb things. They will start babble on endlessly or go completely mute. They will snap

at their friends and family, or feel annoyed by stranger on the street. This shown that

our brain start to react negatively and we started to be negative when we get stress. It

also cause us having negative thinking, for instance, there are few news report that lots

of teenagers try to commit suicide because can’t handle all the stress taken in school or

college. It proof that stress can affect our emotional intelligence. It negatively impacts

our ability to intuit other people’s feelings, convey our own feelings and communicate.

Stress can prevent us being aware of and controlling our emotions, so it’s hard to

maintain a positive mood when stressed.

In conclusion for this stress problem, we should think some solution to avoid

these problem repeat again. Solutions that are able allow those young people get

interest back into their study and will not try to avoid studying but enclose their distance

between studying. Besides that, young people also should have their own solution such

as time-management and prepare a proper schedule for planning about their work and

assignment. Schools are also require to balance the studying level for each standard

and level because they unable to receive it when it was too hard.

References:

1) http://www.evokelearning.ca

2) http://sharpeners.in

3) http://www.writework.com

4) http://www.essayforum.com/

5) http://www.english-test.net

6) http://testbig.com

Pre-writing:

First paragraph: (Introduction) Importance of leisure time and how stress those young

people are nowadays

Second paragraph: (Cause) Increasing of knowledge and worry of the students about

the knowledge their receive are too hard and hard to receive.

Third paragraph: (Cause) High expectation of young people’s parents and strictness of

the parents to their children.

Fourth paragraph: (Effect) How stress affect a young people and how stress affect our

brain emotion intelligence.

Fifth paragraph: (Conclusion) Finding and discuss about solution to cure stress problem

and avoid stress problem repeat again

Citation:

What are some causes of stress among young people and How could this be

ameliorated? By: Hannah Phan

Cause of stress among young people By: passion_fruit

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